[094-374v]

4 April 1808

on L d Eldons Bill

Letter V

[In Copyist's hand]

Ch. │ │ days of Sitting

In the original Bill, there were both "during the time of Session." anglicé & Scoticé, the six months repose /of delay/ which characterizes what in this part of the Bill is called "All dispatch of business" in that Court shall remain a Sabbath: in the same original Bill, power was given to the whole court to make "alterations as to the days" on which its two divisions were to sit. In the amended Bill, it is provided that as to days they shall be "the same days as have been hitherto the days of sitting of the whole Court." The number of days which the Judge shall be found to apply to the service of justice in a many-seated judicature, being thus equally secured against diminution, and except with their own [...?] (for which purpose a clause is added) against encrease.